Independent Project
Reshaping is a workbook designed to help individuals ‘smooth out’ their personal emotional literacy skills. It guides users through short, easy-to-digest activities to provide assistance in better understanding themselves and their emotional processes. The workbook has 4 sections that focus on different aspects of emotional literacy. Each section includes various types of activities with ranging levels of complexity and emotional depth. This workbook offers many levels of self-insight, equipping users with tools to suit their unique needs.
The front cover of ‘Reshaping.’ It includes the workbook's title and a brief, descriptive caption. It also depicts the visual motif that repeats throughout the book's inner content: a shape that gets smoother as the user works on ‘smoothing out’ their emotional processes.
The inside cover and first page of the workbook, which provides the user with a welcome note and an introduction to the book.
The introductory spreads of each section.
The four sections in the workbook are: Checking in With Yourself, Identifying and Labeling Your Emotions, Understanding the Cause of Your Emotions, and Dealing With Your Emotions.
The four sections in the workbook are: Checking in With Yourself, Identifying and Labeling Your Emotions, Understanding the Cause of Your Emotions, and Dealing With Your Emotions.
A style tile developed to guide the visual aesthetic of this capstone project.
Each activity in the book begins with a brief description, an estimation of the time it’ll take to complete, and an indication of the activity's emotional depth. These elements help the user know what to expect prior to beginning an activity.
This image shows an introductory spread for a simpler, self-reflective, question-based activity in Section 3.
This image shows an introductory spread for a simpler, self-reflective, question-based activity in Section 3.
Some of the activities in ‘Reshaping’ have multiple components. These activities are more complex and take slightly longer to complete. This image shows one of those activities from Section 2.
Each section of the workbook concludes with a few journaling pages for the user to reflect in any way they may like during or after that respective section. This is a journaling page spread from Section 4.
This image provides a small glimpse of different pieces of the process work for 'Reshaping.' Including a colour-blind check of the colour palette to ensure that users with varying colour vision deficiencies could still distinguish the book's sections by colour. It also shows early ideation and layout sketches, along with a few early concepts for the project's name.